11th National Training Camp of Rashtriya Muslim Manch

6/28/2012 01:34:00 PM

National Muslim Rashtriya Manch
Camp

“Muslims in India have not come
from outside but belong to this country and is an inseparable part of the
national life of this country like their Hindus”, observed K S Sudarshan,
former Sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) here on Tuesday.

Sudarshan was delivering
inaugural speech at the inauguration of the 11th National Training
Camp of Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) at Hotel New Park here at the historical
township of Pushkar. MRM National Convener Mohd,. Afzal, co-convener and
incharge of the camp Abbas Ali Bohra, Chhattisgarh Waqf Board Chairman Salim
Ashrafi and former national convener of MRM Salavat Khan were prominently
present on the dais.

Sudarshan said that all those
living in India were Hindus. He narrated an incident from the life of Shahi
Imam of Jama Masjid of Delhi while he was on haj pilgrimage to Mecca. There he
was asked to state his identity which came out to be Hindu as he was from
Hindustan. Hence, Sudarshan said “we are all Hindus and this is our country
Hindustan”.

Delving into the historical
beginning of Muslim Rashtriya Manch a decade ago the former RSS Chief said that
he had asked former President of All India Imam Council Maulana Jameel Iliyasi
as to why the Muslims considered themselves as ‘minority’ when they belonged to
this society and country as much as the Hindus?

The former RSS Chief who was most
respectfully referred to as ‘Param Sarsanghchalak’ by Imran Chaudhary and Mohd
Afzal, explained in detail how the British rulers wedged a divide between the
Hindus and Muslims after 1857 war which both had fought together and how the
Congress in independent India reduced the Muslims to a mere vote bank. He also
narrated the role of the then RSS Chief M S Golwalkar in persuading Maharaja
Hari Singh of Kashmir to merge his state in India.

He appealed the Muslims to
understand this game of the Congress party and save themselves from being
reduced to mere vote bank in the future.

MRM National Convener Mohd Afzal
in his speech traced the beginning of MRM and said that the MRM endeavored to
impress upon the people that Islam is really the religion of peace and that
there was no place for violence and terrorism in the name of Islam.

Referring to the fatwa issued by
the Darul-uloom Deoband against terrorism in the name of religion, he said that
it was the efforts and campaign by the MRM that prompted Deoband to issue such
a fatwa denouncing terrorism and wanton killings in the name of jihad and
religion.

He said that the MRM activists
have unfurled the national tricolor at Srinagar in Kashmir and sang Vande
Mataram there braving all adverse situations. Not only this, the MRM
participated in the MRM delegates participated in the Amarnath Shrine
Board agitation and submitted a memorandum containing signatures of 10 lakh
Muslims from the country to the President demanding ban on cow slaughter.

He said that the MRM believed in
the concept of Hindutva which according to him was all encompassing and
included the gurudwaras, churches and baba garib nawaz meaning the Sikhs,
Christians and Muslims are covered by the term Hindu.

Referring to the current debate
on RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement on who should become the next prime
minister of the country, Afzal said amidst thunderous applause that the MRM
felt that the next prime minister should be a ‘swayamsevak’ of RSS.

He said that the MRM would set up
a blood bank shortly and to mark the beginning of this project a blood donation
camp would be conducted on June 27 at the camp venue. He said that Abbas Ali Bohra,
national co-convener of the MRM has declared to finance the project.

The three-day event will discuss
issues in Jammu and Kashmir in the light of the report of the interlocutors
appointed by the union government on Kashmir problem, and other organizational
matters. Mentor of MRM Indresh Kumar will also be interacting with the
participating delegates.

The three-day event is being
attended by over 200 activists from 25 states.